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Icarus

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asteroidnoun	(astronomy) A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet and a dwarf planet, larger than a meteoroid and not a comet, that orbits a star and often has an irregular shape.
daedalusnoun	(Greek mythology) Greek mythological figure who crafted the waxen wings of Icarus.
ixionnoun	(Greek mythology) King of Lapiths, who was punished by Zeus for trying to seduce Hera by being bound to a winged fiery wheel that was always spinning.
itylosnoun	(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Itylus. [(Greek mythology) The son of Aedon.]
iacchosnoun	(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Iacchus. [(Greek mythology) A minor deity of some cultic importance, particularly at Athens and Eleusis in connection with the Eleusinian mysteries.]
itylusnoun	(Greek mythology) The son of Aedon.
iacchusnoun	(Greek mythology) A minor deity of some cultic importance, particularly at Athens and Eleusis in connection with the Eleusinian mysteries.
icarianoun	Alternative form of Ikaria. [An island of Greece, of the northeast Aegean Sea.]
iakchosnoun	(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Iacchus. [(Greek mythology) A minor deity of some cultic importance, particularly at Athens and Eleusis in connection with the Eleusinian mysteries.]
pigasusnoun	An imaginary winged pig.
iphigenianoun	(Greek mythology) The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who is sacrificed by her father to ensure the safe journey of the Greeks to Troy.
pegasusnoun	(Greek mythology) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon tamed and rode upon Pegasus when he defeated the Chimaera.
iakkhosnoun	(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Iacchus. [(Greek mythology) A minor deity of some cultic importance, particularly at Athens and Eleusis in connection with the Eleusinian mysteries.]
herostratusnoun	an Ancient Greek arsonist who destroyed the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, in order to become famous
phaëthonnoun	(Greek mythology) The son of the sun god Helios who was killed by Zeus while driving his father's chariot uncontrolledly across the sky.
ceyxnoun	(Greek mythology) A king who was transformed into a kingfisher, together with his wife Alcyone.
ixionidnoun	(Greek mythology) A centaur.
iapetusnoun	(astronomy) A moon in Saturnian system, Solar System: The third largest moon of Saturn
sisyphusnoun	(Greek mythology) Son of Aeolus and Enarete, and king of Ephyra, as tragic figure doomed eternally to roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, a part of Hades.
deucalionnoun	(Greek mythology) The son of Prometheus, husband of Pyrrha. Both survived a deluge sent by Zeus to punish the human race.